The Rangers are nothing if not predictable. They play .556 baseball at home, and they just finished their most recent homestand 4-3, as scheduled.

Now they go on the road, where they are .431, for six games. They will go 2-4. 

When the homestand started, they were 2.0 games out in the A.L. West. Today, they are 2.0 games out in the A.L. West. When the homestand started, they were 2.0 games out of the final wildcard spot. Today, they are 1.5 games out. 

They aren’t making much progress as the season slips away from them. Just 18 games remain. 

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